Alzheimer’s events ease worries and lower stress

If you care about Alzheimer’s disease, there are a number of events and resources you should investigate:

For people with early-stage Alzheimer’s, here’s a lovely free event:

This Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 10 a.m. and continuing on the second Wednesday of every month through May 2012, people with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease are invited to learn to play croquet at the National Croquet Center and enjoy the beautiful setting and free refreshments.

Also Wednesday, you can support the Alzheimer’s Association Southeast Florida Chapter by joining a beer tasting at World of Beer in West Palm Beach.

Sample six unique and flavorful beers properly paired with small plates of food.

The event runs from 5 pm to 7:30 pm. World of Beer is at 101 N. Clematis Street, Suite 100, West Palm Beach, FL 33401. For tickets, contact: Carole McCoy at cmccoy@faithnpb.com or (561) 844-0012 or just show up. The cost for this fundraising event is $30.

Find out more about home-care options.

The Alzheimer’s Association and the Private Duty Homecare Association are offering a free webinar targeted to caregivers. You can listen in on Nov. 15 at 7 p.m.

Remember Leeza Gibbons, who was the face of celebrity news on Entertainment Tonight and Extra in the 1980s?

In the 1990s, she became caregiver to her mother, who died of Alzheimer’s disease in 1998. She wrote a book about the experience and has now teamed up with the website caring.com on a 13-part video series about the journey that she went through as a caregiver, and the advice she has for people in her shoes.

There will be a free memory screening event on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at Benevenuto’s in Boynton Beach, sponsored by JEM Research Institute. The restaurant is at 1730 North Federal Highway Boynton Beach, FL 33435. Call 561-968-2933 to reserve a time.
JEM Research Institute is one of several clinics that enrolls Alzheimer’s patients in clinical trials.

Located on FAU’s Boca Raton campus, the Memory and Wellness Center is part of FAU’s Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing. It averages 16,000 visits each year, one-third of them caregivers.
Phone is 561-297-0502.